ruby.rb

def doRequest(url)
  out = {'returncode' => 0}
  puts "sending GET to #{url}" if $debug
  begin
    uri = URI.parse(url)
    response = uri.read(:read_timeout => $timeout)
    puts "Response: #{response}" if $debug
    out['data'] = JSON.load(response)
  rescue Timeout::Error, Errno::EINVAL, Errno::ECONNRESET, EOFError, Errno::ECONNREFUSED,
    Net::HTTPBadResponse, Net::HTTPHeaderSyntaxError, Net::ProtocolError => e
    out['text'] = "WARNING: Error '#{e}' while sending request to #{url}"
    out['returncode'] = 1
  end
  puts "Parsed: #{out['data']}" if $debug
  return out
end